Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

210 SWEARING TO ASSASSINATE SECEDEUS. TO REPLACE POPERY ON THE THRONE OF UNGLAND. 211the Appletree tavern in 1717, are Latin, Jtsbela, Jubeloand Jubelum. But as there was no Latin language tillcenturies after Solomon, any scholar can see the ridiculouspretense of Solomon’s connection with Masonry centuriesafter he was~ dead. Ramsay invented for the assassinsa new set of names, (Mackey Ency. Art. Awzesins)viz: Alcirop, Guibs and Gravelot, to hide fromFrench aristocrats the ignorance of the English inventorsof the lodge. The story of sending to “Maacha, King ofCheth” to find the last two murderers, is metamorphosedfrom Shimei going to “Achish, son of Maachsh, King ofOath,” I Kings, 2, 89, pursuing steadily the plan ofstealing from the Bible freely, everything but the oneMediator and salvation through Him!; thus deceivingmultitudes into the belief that Masonry is very like theBible and equally good. But in the midst of this fraudulentverbosity, the oath of this Tenth Degree has thisdamning clsuse: After swearing consent to have his“body opened and exposed eight hours to flies,” he ismade to swear: “I will always be ready to inflict thesame punishment on those who shall disclose this degree.”This sworn assassination, by torture, increases inintensity as the degrees increase. And yet Masonicwriters with a cool impudence, gained from worshipingthe “father of lies,” affirm that “Masonry knows nopunishment but expulsion from the lodge ! I!”The venerable and beloved Dr. Aydelotte, Presidentof Woodward College, Cincinnati, when asked by a citypastor, who had taken twenty-one degrees: “What jethe matter with Masonry ?“ replied: “Matter with Masonry!It is lie all over.” The holy man had long beforerenounced the three degrees he had taken. (Seethe oath in the Ritual.) We resd from Milton:—Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves.Who all the ucred mysteries of heaven.To their own vile advantages shall turnOf lucre and ambition.If everthe words of Paul, expanded by Milton, had afulfillment, it was when Ramsay and the Jesuits ~nventedthese degrees for money and the hopes of promotionby replacing Popery on the throne of Englandcrushing Protestantism in Europe, and free governmentthroughout the world.